Brisbane Residents Fear Animal Serial Killer Is On The Loose

Brisbane animal owners have been left shocked and terrified by the gruesome discovery of a local horse who had been "precisely" mutilated by an unknown killer.

The horrific crime has prompted many Upper Coomera residents to send their own horses away into hiding, fearing that this is only the beginning of a spree of animal murders.

Carolyn Jeffrey, 52, came across her 21-year-old Arab cross Appaloosa, called Angie, in a dam at the back of her property on Courtney Road; all four of the horse's legs had been severed with "perfect precisioning" around the knee and hock joints.

"I honestly have never ever seen anything like this," said Gold Coast RSPCA inspector Sommer Crilley - who then admitted to the Gold Coast Bulletinthat she would have "packed her bags and left the area by now".

"The whole scene was confusing - nothing made sense. It was gruesome.

"We had a dead horse with its legs severed and there wasn't one drop of blood.

"The precision that those cuts were made in, it was mirror image on each leg.

"They were clean cuts from a person who knew exactly what they were doing."